Nurses' Emotional Intelligence And Conscientiousness Interactive Effects On As Well As Correlated To Stress Coping Styles

【Aim】To investigate characteristics of Emotional Intelligence (EI), Conscientiousness (C ) and Stress Coping Styles as well as the relationship among them in Nurses and explored interactive effects of emotional intelligence and conscientiousness on coping strategies.【Methods】464 nurses from general hospitals were collected by stratified random sampling and evaluated with psychometric instruments including : Wong's Emotional Intelligence Scale (WEIS), Ten-Item Personality Inventory—Conscientiousness (TIPI—Conscientiousness) and Nurse Coping Style Questionnaire.Data were conducted by Chi-square tests,Spearman Correlations and Logistic regress analysis according to key themes.【Results】(1) Nurses'Demographic characteristics had effects on emotional intelligence and Stress Coping Styles. respectively. (P<0.05 ) However,there was no statistical differences of EI varied with education levels. (P>0.05). (2) Differences between Nurses'Conscientiousness scores and normative data with statistical significance have been found. (P <0.001) . (3) Nurses'EI scores were correlated with coping styles (r=-0.123～0.253). (4) EI, Conscientiousness and Nurses'Demographic characteristics has a significant regress effects on Stress Coping Styles. (P< 0.05; P< 0.01). (5) Changes of R2 in the model for the regress analysis on Task-oriented Coping Styles and Avoidance ways of coping after interactive effect virable entered have found to be statistical significant. (P<0.05)While there is no statistical significant change in the model R2 for Emotion-focused Coping (P>0.05).【Conclusions】(1) Both problems solving and positive recognition are main coping styles of nurses towards stress.Either avoidance or self_reproach was seldom coping strategies of nurses toward occupational stress. (2) Compare to normative data , nurses have more higher score on Conscientiousness. (3) Four dimensions of EI, as well as Conscientiousness and nurses'demographic characteristics positively or negatively predicted six kind of Stress Coping Strategies separately . (4) As far as average effects were concerned,EI and Conscientiousness have interactive effects on task-oriented and avoidance stress coping strategies.